It's a horrible story and a lesson for our times. A millionaire, superstar athlete buys a nightclub. Trouble erupts and two of the bars' employees, close friends of the ballplayer, are stabbed to death. The pampered athlete has to take time away from the team that's paying him all those millions to deal with the tragedy.

Sportswriters everywhere pen anguished tomes about how this kind of violence has reached epidemic proportions in our society. The network news picks up the story. ESPN quickly throws togethera a special "Outside the Lines" about it. Newspaper editorials wax on about our "culture of violence." Ten thousand word magazine articles examine the price of fame for young superstars.

Oh, wait...the athlete was Chris Chelios? A hockey player? White guy? Never mind.

Seriously, isn't this exactly the kind of thing, that if Chelios was black and in the NFL or NBA, would set off a firestorm of blather about how the world is crashing down around us like when Tank Williams bodyguard or Darrent Williams was shot? Where are the editorials about the need to curb knife violence with stricter knife laws?